I have always been curious about the number of high school athletes that go on to play in college and the pros, but have always heard a wide range of statistics, so I decided to take a shot at consolidating the numbers across sports and gender. For most of the numbers, I found a great resource, scholarshipstats.com, which tracks the number of high school players in the US along with the number that advance to play on a Division I, II, or III NCAA team. To get the data for the final piece of the funnel, the total number of players in the pros, I looked up how many players are drafted per year to each top tier professional league in the United States.

The visualization below includes major sports in which both males and females have a chance to advance from high school to the top tier league within the US in their respective genders. For this reason, the visualization does not include football. If you are looking for how many high school football players go on to play in college and get drafted to the NFL, there are 1,121,744 boys playing high school football. Of those, 87,256 play in college (1 in 13), and 254 are drafted to the NFL (1 in 4,416 who play in high school; 1 in 344 who play in college).

I told myself I wasn't going to post the 2013 NFL payrolls by team this year. After all, this is the first season with a salary floor and a salary cap, so I expected all 32 NFL teams to be paying within 10% of each other on player salary. Based on the interest this piece receives every year, I also expected that at least one reliable source would finally publish a cut and dry version of the NFL team payrolls to alleviate all of the confusion surrounding the topic. That did not happen. Although The Guardian did build this very impressive interactive visualization for viewing NFL salaries by team and position. Still, without grinding through slideshows with one team on each slide or busting out your calculator to do the math on salary cap minus salary cap room, I couldn't find just a straightforward table breaking down the NFL payrolls by team. Below you will find that elusive table as well as a graphic for 2013 NFL payrolls by team with references for salary floor and salary cap....

The Kansas City Chiefs Record Tracker was created to monitor the progress of current Chiefs players against all-time franchise records. It’s also a nod to past Chiefs greats who may not have set or held onto franchise records, but deserve to be remembered for their top five careers.

The NFL payrolls per win, salaries per win, cost per win – however you think about it – is a simple calculation to determine how efficient each of the 32 NFL GM’s are at getting the best bang for their buck. This is the last season that these numbers will be particularly interesting because next year, all teams will be required to spend at least 90% of the salary cap (which will prevent outliers like the Jacksonville Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs from spending much less than the NFL average).

NFL salaries and cap space are not always straightforward calculations as teams can manipulate these, and in some cases, are paying for former GMs, etc. I have trusted USA Today, the NFL, and salary cap space vs. salary calculations to provide the most reasonable NFL cost per win numbers as possible.

This year, we have made the NFL payrolls per win data fully interactive. To use (1) Select a season from 2008-2012 at the top and (2) Click a team name once to see five year trends and their performance to NFL benchmarks.